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to his vehicle to digest the extra bottle 

 of wine I supposed he must have taken 

 on such an occasion while I remained 

 to ruminate on the infatuation of a man 

 so well up in most things, but who had 

 studied his fellow-man to very little 

 purpose. 



I must now draw on my memory 

 for an example of another class of per- 

 sons. 



Idlers, in search of health, pleasure, or 

 amusement, sometimes took their seats in 

 the only conveyance that went direct from 

 the metropolis to this second Bath or 

 Cheltenham. Among them was one who 

 might literally be called a man of fashion ; 

 his appearance, manners, and conversa- 

 tion, evinced the finished gentleman of the 

 Irish school; there was that also in his 

 exterior which always marks the mili- 

 tary man an upright carriage, with a 



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